👁️ Computer Eyes
Vision & Media Mastery Track — how machines see, read, write and generate images, video, animation and audio. Built for Samo & Ondrej: real Tom Horn art, real depth, and dashboards where you turn a knob and watch the machine react. Companion to the Technical Mastery Track.
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How a Machine Sees an Image
Pixels, channels, alpha, bit depth, resolution — the grid behind every picture. Full lesson + hands-on + quiz.
● LIVE🔬 Pixel Explorer
Zoom into real TH symbols pixel-by-pixel, split channels, crush bit depth, resample resolution — live.
● LIVE🎭 Alpha & Matte Lab
Hunt edge halos on real symbols: threshold, choke and feather an alpha matte over any reel background.
Phase 1 · The Raw Material
Color Spaces
RGB, HSV, LAB, CMYK — recolor a symbol set with one number.
Formats & Artifacts
PNG/JPEG/WebP/AVIF; why artifacts cluster on your edges.
Convolution & Kernels
Program vision with 9 numbers — blur, sharpen, edges.
Masks, Layers & Blends
Non-destructive surgery; blend modes as arithmetic.
Transforms & Cutting
Matrices, resampling, pixel-exact sprite atlas cuts.
Style as Data
Histograms, curves, LUTs — parameterize the house look.
Phase 2 · Seeing Like AI
Embeddings & Latent Space
Where images become meaning; prompts as coordinates.
Diffusion Step-by-Step
Noise → symbol: steps, CFG, seeds, samplers — which knob, when.
Conditioning & Surgical Control
ControlNet, img2img, inpainting, style refs — keep style, change one symbol.
Phase 3 · Time & Sound
Video & Codecs
I/P/B frames, GOPs, bitrate — frame-exact lossless cutting.
Animation & Motion
Easing curves — motion character in four numbers.
Audio: Waves to Gen
Sample rate, spectrograms, why audio models paint sound-images.
Phase 4 · Mastery
The Symbol Surgeon
Full TH pipeline: extract style, surgically replace a symbol, ship formats, spec motion + audio.